Birth of tragedy: the search for truth, both personal and historical, is the driving force of Parallel Mothers, Pedro Almodóvar’s most openly political film to date
In dreams: the Georgian director discusses the method behind the delicate balance of romance, folklore, and social critique in his What Do We See When We Look At The Sky?
I’m looking through you: The common denominator in Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car and Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy is an acceptance of transience in all things
Family vacation: In Mia Hansen-Løve’s latest, Bergman Island, the Swedish master’s influence offers less inspiration than a strategy for moving through life as an artist
Hands of God: Paul Verhoeven’s latest is an oddly buoyant film that treats its subject—the only nun on record to have a detailed account of sapphic exploits—with sincerity, even reverence
Look again: In his latest film, Bill Morrison constructs a meditation on mortality, Soviet history, the search for lost things, and the persistence of accordions
